Crossword-Solution: GIMBALS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gimbals | n. | A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GIMBALS | anagram | BIGSLAM |
We have 4 clues for the answer “GIMBALS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pivoting gizmos | 1 answer |
| Shipboard device, as for holding compass level. | 1 answer |
| GYROSCOPE, part of | 2 answers |
| gyroscope | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with GIMBALS (5)
Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part.
There were the tell-tale compass, the sea-lamps in their gimbals, the blue-backed charts carelessly rolled and tucked away, the signal-flags in alphabetical order, and a mariner's dividers jammed into the woodwork to hold a calendar.
The curtain of my bed-place swung to and fro as if it were a punkah, the bulkhead lamp circled in its gimbals, and now and then the cabin door rattled slightly in the gusts of wind.
The lighted sea-lamps swung and leaped in their gimbals, ever battling with the dancing shadows in the murky gray.
Behind him the central tower poked its gaunt ferromorph and durilium outline into the darkening sky bearing its crown of spiderweb radar antennae turning steadily on their gimbals covering a vast hemisphere from horizon to zenith with endless inspection.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1966–2015).